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Priti Patel just happened to have a meeting with Israeli PM. It’s the sort of thing that happens all the time…

Yes, it is nasty to kick a person when they are down, but Priti Patel lied to us all about the nature of her “holiday” in Israel last summer and there are questions still to be answered about her loyalties.

Nobody just happens to have a meeting with the Prime Minister of the country they are visiting on holiday. Ms Patel enjoyed a pre-arranged meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu – but we don’t know whether Foreign Office security procedures were followed because we don’t know whether the Foreign Office knew about it. That’s just one of the questions that will need to be answered.

In the meantime, people have been lining up to express their <ahem> sympathy with Ms Patel’s situation:

I sympathise with Priti Patel. When I was 12 our holiday in Bognor was spoilt when we bumped into Menachem Begin and couldn't get rid of him

What a cracking selection of tweets. If Priti Patel has to appear in front of a commons select committee about this affair she might present them as evidence that “these coincidental meetings can happen to anyone”.

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